“…Ye
can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of
the times?” -Matthew 16:3b

History
repeats itself because most folks fail to learn from it. Most Americans
fail to learn from U.S. history because what little history is taught
in public schools is filled with half truths. But as my former pastor
used to say, a half truth is a whole lie. Most Americans, for
example, don’t realize the last time this country was as divided
as it is today, 11 Southern states decided they could no longer support
a power-hungry federal government constantly usurping their Constitutional
rights as sovereign states or the growing federal intrusion
into the private lives of their citizens. Sound familiar? The
people of these states chose to voluntarily leave the union
their forefathers had voluntarily joined. There were, however,
serious consequences for exercising their Constitutional right to leave
the old union.

What
followed was four years of bloody, no-so-civil war that cost
this country about one million lives, if you count the battlefield dead,
those who died from sickness, disease and starvation, and the civilian
casualties so little of which has ever been recorded by revisionist
historians.

Mr.
Lincoln’s War Against the Southern People did not bring about
an end to slavery, despite what public school textbooks and Lincoln
apologists tell us. Fewer than 15 percent of Southerners owned any slaves,
and yet these professional liars have succeeded in propagating a 150-year
lie that Southerners were fighting to defend slavery, and that Adolf,
I mean, Abraham Lincoln, was the great emancipator, their martyred
messiah. The average American has no idea Lincoln was a consummate racist
who voted not to allow African-Americans to settle in his state (Illinois)
and strongly advocated deporting all blacks back Africa or to the Caribbean.

The
man who eloquently spoke of malice toward none, fought a vicious,
undeclared war without the consent of Congress, sending an invading
army into Southern states that waged war, not simply with Confederate
soldiers and sailors but against innocent civilians. On his orders,
his demonic forces burned Southern cities, homes, businesses and even
churches. To silence his opposition in the North, he jailed dissenters
without charge, shut down newspapers critical of his despotic policies,
rigged state and local elections, deported his most outspoken critic
in Congress and even ordered the arrest of the Chief Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court. In true Orwellian fashion, Lincoln felt the need
to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.

The
man who filled his army with socialist
refugees from Europe’s failed socialist revolutions of the
1840s and whose centralist government became the model for all other
19th century socialists is the same man Americans call Honest Abe. Were
it not for the death toll Lincoln caused, including the nation our
forefathers founded, the Lincoln myth, as Thomas
J. DiLorenzo calls it, would be funny.

Another
funny twist to the myth is that the signs of the times are pointing
to history repeating itself. Not only has the federal government gotten
nearly three-quarters of the American people bitterly angry as Chuck
Baldwin recently explained, the new messiah frequently
compares himself to Mr.
Enloe’s illegitimate offspring. That’s not funny. It’s
scary. I’ll explain why in a moment.

By
the way, most of the former slaves were not freed. They merely exchanged
one master for another – just as their brethren had done in Northern
states like New York, which did not end slavery until the late 1850’s.
And the precious union was not saved but destroyed. States held together
by force may be indivisible as claimed in the pledge, but they’re
not united. Unity – like marriage – must be
voluntary. These 50 states (57, if you went to school in Chicago), are
nothing more than provinces of an all-power, Big Brother government.

The
ties that bound all states to this unconstitutional union have been
rotting since the day they were put in place. And all the signs suggest
that today’s political turmoil is tearing these tattered bonds,
deepening the divide between those who want government to protect the
national borders then otherwise leave them alone and those who want
government to be and do all things for them and everybody else (where
the everybody else—a.k.a., middle class—pays
for it). All the signs are pointing to another civil war, one that
would make the last one look like a schoolyard fistfight.

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You
don’t agree? Maybe you’re one of the millions of Americans
who have trouble reading anything, so it’s little wonder you can’t
read the signs of the times. If you can read though, please consider
these facts:

1.
One immediate consequence to the last civil war was public schools,
which were started by Unitarians (humanists) and socialists in the northeast
in the early 1800s but with little success. The Yankee victory in the
South gave them a living laboratory to carry out their plan to re-educate
all Americans, starting with Southern children, teaching them what they
wanted them to learn or not learn. Until then, most children
were taught at home and were able to read and write and think for themselves.
Today, public school kids know all about safe sex and can quote nonsense
propaganda about saving the Earth from capitalists, but if they can
read at all, they can’t explain what they’ve read and can’t
explain what they’re thinking in writing because they’re
vocabularies are too weak to articulate their thoughts. If you
ever wonder what America’s future looks like, spend a few hours
in a public school classroom. The federal government – which controls
all public schools – has the power to ration knowledge and in
doing so, control the minds of each generation! Three years
ago, I recorded what I learned in public school classrooms as a teacher
then what I learned about the public school system after I left the
classroom. You can read a little bit of what I learned in my book, Legally
STUPiD.

2.
Another consequence of the last civil war was the income tax. In fact,
as DiLorenzo explains, it was really tariffs supported by Lincoln’s
corporate sponsors that prompted him to order his army to invade the
South, so it could collect his newly increased federal tariffs. Then
with dictatorial powers assumed on himself by himself, he added new
forms of revenue to the tax menu, including the income tax.

3.
Property taxes too are to Lincoln’s credit and rightfully belong
in the above list, but it’s important that I separate these taxes
from income taxes for it shows for the first time the reality that you
own nothing, that the government assumes it owns everything. Think
not? Try not paying your property taxes and see who gets what you think
is your property.

4.
The greatest legacy of Mr. Lincoln is the Big Brother government he
formed. Please note that each of these facts about the last civil war
can be found as fundamental goals in Karl Marx’ Communist
Manifesto. Not surprisingly, Marx was a big fan of old Abe.

All
of the above is mere academics when you look it over at a glance and
don’t consider the ramifications of what we’re facing should
another such war erupt. That’s why I said That One’s constantly
comparing himself to Lincoln is so scary.

Some
folks who love the Lincoln myth take offence to this comparison, but
if you’re a regular reader of NewsWithViews, you should be aware
by now that Lincoln being a Republican and Obama being a Democrat is
immaterial. The last false messiah was a white racist and the new false
messiah is a black racist. Still racist though. As for their
different political parties, let me paraphrase DiLorenzo. There are
left-winged socialists (Democrats) and right-winged socialists
(Republicans). They’re still socialists!

Internationally,
the left-winged variety gave us Stalin and Mao, and the right-winged
critters gave us Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Those who want to bicker
about which of these devils was a worse devil are wasting my time. I’m
content to believe all socialist leaders, foreign and domestic,
will spend eternity in the same cell.

What
remains for us to decide is what to do about the socialists ruling over
us now. Chuck and others are right. We should arm ourselves and to the
teeth! Our states should demand and exercise more of their stolen Constitutional
rights and authority. But we don’t need to establish state militias,
just take back the oldest military branch in American history, our National
Guards; the first of which was established in 1636.

In
my recently released new book, Prole
Nation, I allow readers to look into the near future in which 27
states recall their National Guards from federal service. Imagine how
that would affect foreign policy. Though the first two chapters of my
new book were written before the 2008 election, I predicted the outcome
of the election and what has become a nation-wide reaction to the policies
I predicted That One would follow, based on his affinity for the real
Lincoln, not the mythical Lincoln so loved by the brainwashed masses.
(By the way, I also predicted double-digit inflation and double-digit
unemployment. We already have one of these economic ills, and it’s
not yet 2012, the year the story supposedly takes place. I even predicted
passage of one of the pieces of legislation listed below and the escalation
of the current war. You may want to pray the rest of my predictions
don’t come true.)

I’ve
read dozens of online articles lately, as well as emails and blogs that
try to get the angry but not yet focused American public to question
why the last 10 years has given us so many laws that rob us of Constitutional
rights, ostensibly to provide for our security: the Patriot
Act, which gave us the Department of Homeland Gestapo, I
mean, Security and allows the government to arrest anyone deemed
a terrorist and periodically redefine what a terrorist is; the National
Defense Authorization Act, which gave us USNORTHCOM and CBRNE
brigades, which allows active duty units to respond to domestic emergencies
– presumably even Tea Parties that get just a little too loud;
the National Criminal Information System (NCIS) Improvement
Act, which allows the feds to disarms veterans and police officers
who just happen to be trained to use firearms and military tactics but
may be a harm to themselves or others because they were at some time
in their lives diagnosed with PTSD; and the recent Hate Crimes
Protection Act, which allows the feds to suppress public speech
and religious expression against a federally protected subspecies, even
if it means closing up churches and locking up pastors and members of
that congregation.

There’s
also the pending National Identification System, efforts
to re-instate the so-called Fairness Doctrine, and
growing proof of internment camps all around the country,
already built and waiting for their residents.

Those
of you who say you’re ready for the fight sure to come, let me
ask you, are you really? Rest assured the man who hesitated
three months to decide to send additional troops to Afghanistan will
not hesitate to send troops to destroy lunatic fringe
elements like us, just as his mentor did in 1861.

I’m
sorry, Chuck, but the internment camps are not for us. Those of us who’ve
incited the Christian right Republicans, libertarians, and God &
Gun Democrats will be singled out and eliminated. They won’t even
bother to cure us of our thought crimes first. Most of us will
become non-persons. The docile, outer party, simple
Americans who can’t focus their anger long enough to save their
country will be housed in these camps where they’ll be worked,
starved and systematically exterminated the same way Hitler, Stalin
and Mao took care of who submitted to their demands to surrender their
rights, property and personal dignity.

So
again, I ask, are you ready for this fight? Are you willing to die trying
to bring back our Constitutional Republic, as hundreds of thousands
of Southern Americans did 150 years ago? As surely as no declaration
was made to start that war, no peace treaty was ever signed to end it.
The fight for liberty still lives in the hearts of every American willing
to give his or her life for his country – not his government.
Are you willing to live by the words of that great American patriot,
Patrick Henry?

“Gentlemen
may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the
clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why
stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they
have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
-Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

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I
don’t know if you’ve really given it that much thought,
but I have. I wouldn’t write articles like this one, run a web
site like www.voicefromthepews.com
or write and publish books like Legally
STUPiD and Prole Nation if I wasn’t
man enough to give my life for what I believe. Besides, another sign
of the times is the imminent return of my Lord Jesus. He may not come
for his church until after this fight, but I would not have him find
me cowering in a corner, fearing the devils of this world. I’ll
take up the fight until He comes. How about you?

R.C.
Murray is a disabled veteran and former public school teacher. He left
a good job as a technical writer for a satellite manufacturer in order
to teach high school English, only to immediately be told he could not
expect, much less require his students to read their literature assignments.
After four years of fighting The System and having a stroke then a mini-stroke,
he decided he was safer in the airborne infantry and returned to being
a technical writer for a military contractor.

He
has also dedicated the rest of his life to exhorting parents about what’s
really going on in their local public school, the one they think is a
good school. R.C. Murray is the author of two books, Golden Knights: History
of the U.S. Army Parachute Team and most recently, Legally
STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read.